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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes.  Especially in this area, where parents are willing and able to pay to ensure that their kids get the best start. 
The upside is that many useful resources also exist.  You just have to be a discerning consumer.  [/quote]

+1. I'm no longer in NOVA but elsewhere in Virginia, and I can attest to this fact. Just look at the stickers on the back of cars at stop lights touting their kids' extracurriculars. Those always caught my eye. The K-12 teachers there struck me more as there to assign the work rather than to teach. The whole vibe seemed to be: go ask your outside tutor for help at your next tutoring session. You have a tutor your parents are paying $300+ a month for, right? If not, why not? I assign it, the tutor teaches it. Our kids never had tutors (but both parents have masters and Ph.D.s in STEM and humanities) so we could sit down with our kids and help pretty well and I was a SAHM, which made it even easier. But not every household can do it as easily, so they reach out in the DMV striver culture for "resources" to help their kid keep up academically and they pile the ECs on top of that (sports, music, etc.). There's a reason preschools are now called "academies" instead of just preschool. It's all for the appearance of that "best start" mentality -- my kid will be set up to do better than yours -- but it's still just preschool. You have to see through the hype, the marketing, the pressure, the lies.[/quote]

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